160+ YouTube Stats and Facts (August 2018) | By the Numbers

Article Last Updated: August 12, 2018 by Craig Smith

In this “By the Numbers” statistic post, we take a look at some statistics and facts about YouTube, the world’s largest video network.

YouTube is a true American success story. It began as the brainchild of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim: three PayPal employees that wanted to create a platform where users could post and share video clips. As a startup, YouTube attracted users and funding fairly quickly and was snatched up by the almighty Google roughly a year and a half after it was launched for $1.65 billion.

When a social network has over a billion users that spend amazing amounts of time on it daily, there is no shortage of aspects of and facts about YouTube that can be measured and reported. I have been collecting YouTube stats and facts for about 6 years now in this curated collection. Below is a lengthy sampling of what I have put together over the years and if you like what you see, you can purchase the entire downloadable report at the bottom of this post. As always, I will be adding to and updating these stats as often as they are made available.

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This report contains all of the YouTube stats I have been able to dig up over the years. This report is a digital collection of every YouTube statistic I have curated over the years as of August 2018. 160+ of them including stats for:

User Totals

Demographics

Video Stats

Mobile Stats

Advertising and Revenue Stats

Etc.- all in one place

I try to go through each and every stat regularly and update as much as possible, but we all know that some stats are easier to track down than others. As always, every stat is linked to its original source and has the source date listed.

To get your copy of this YouTube statistic report, click on the button below to purchase it.

Please note that some of these Youtube stats are easier to find than others. A few of these stats come from YouTube/Google’s own reports, but some are based on news reports and not official company tallies. Basically, this is the best I can find and I don’t guarantee anything to be 100% accurate.